Brass Don’t Rust by user1492711

Format: Commander

Creator: user1492711

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Pirate tribal strategy spearheaded by Admiral Brass, Unsinkable. The primary objective is to curve out with evasive, utility-focused Pirates during the early turns while filling the graveyard through self-mill, looting, and incidental trades. Once Admiral Brass, Unsinkable enters the battlefield on turn 5, she provides immediate value by milling cards and reanimating a fallen Pirate as a hasty 4/4 combatant each combat step. On turn 6, the deck transitions into critical onset by deploying massive combat force multipliers such as Shared Animosity, Port Razer, or Dire Fleet Ravager to slice through opposing life totals. While the deck boasts strong natural recursion and resilience against single-target attrition, it lacks dedicated tutor suites and fast countermagic, making it reliant on overwhelming battlefield momentum and continuous creature pressure to close the game across turns 7 and 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Departed Deckhand
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fathom Fleet Captain
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
  • 1 Gutless Plunderer
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 King Narfi's Betrayal
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Merchant Raiders
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Navigator's Ruin
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Storm Fleet Negotiator
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Grim Captain's Locker
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timestream Navigator
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter